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“It’s December in NY” [by Florence Cassen Mayers]
It’s December in NY and dogs wear coats.Rich ladies air fur coats,the homeless bundle worn coats.Annual coat drives distribute hats and coats.Cold as the Norwegian coast, cold as South Dakota.Button up your overcoat.Layer sweater,…
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Edmund Wilson and His Wife, Elena, Have Dinner with Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Husband, Eugen Boissevain, August 6, 1948. (by Jim Cummins)
Is it hot in here, or is it just me? They both seem so much older now than I— can this be so? Do women age like dogs, or something out of Wilde? Seven…
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Patricia Carlin Presents a Poem by Stephen Burt
For the last week of the old year, here is a kind of state-of-the-union message, as germane now as it was in Winter 2006 when this poem appeared in Barrow Street. The poem, “The…
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Regina Quondum, Regina Futurus (by Mitch Sisskind)
Almost a hundred years ago, Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the best-known women in America and certainly the best known female poet. Though she's been unfashionable for many years, I predict a…
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“Poet Eating Peanuts” by Mario de Andrade [trans. Ron Horning]
Poet Eating Peanutsto Carlos Drummond de Andrade(1924) Nights heavy with suffocating smells, heat . . .The Sun made its way across the enormous stretch of our countryAnd gave each Brazilian a dark complexion. I’m…
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Merry Merry
Thanks for the tree, Laura. And Merry Christmas to all of our readers. — sdh
